Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

Now it feels like an urge.

Now you have to do the action just to calm your system down and get a sense of relief.

So once you've moved from cue action reward to cue reward action, you've built a habit cycle.

You've built an addiction.

And now you are forced to behave in a way just to regain homeostasis.

So that's all technology is trying to do.

They don't even hide it anymore.

There was a time when tech people were like,

We're trying to be altruistic.

We're here for the people.

We love you.

And now they don't even kid.

They're like, we're going to pay the highest salaries to psychologists in history of the world just to build habit cycles on our machines.

So when you take it away and the kid gets the cue, whether it's discomfort or my mom talked to me and they don't have that action that they can go to, the dopamine ramps, they get worse and worse and worse.

They get more uncomfortable.

You get yourself a meltdown.

So it's very much a trackable addiction cycle.

Isn't that trippy?

Best argument, someone from Seattle, Emily Shurkin, a parent asked her, when should I give my kid a cell phone?

And her response was, when are you ready for them to watch porn?